To celebrate National Aviation Day for 2014, we have built on our aviation heritage starting with our first president, "Lucky" Lester. "Lucky" was a Tuskegee airman in World War II. After his 28 years of service in the air force, he went on to found ICF in 1969.

1. ICF’s Aviation History
AVIATION DAY 2014
ATC
1981
ICF started supporting the FAA in
its effort to modernize air traffic
control systems.
Space
1992
ICF supports Environmental
Program Support Services for
FAA’s Office of Commercial
SpaceTransportation, which is
responsible for licensing and
permitting commercial space
launch operations.
AMS
1995
ICF joins a team of industry and
government experts to develop
the FAA’s life cycle acquisition
management policy called the
Acquisition Management System
or AMS.
2012 ICF supports the FAA’s ETASS (EnRouteTechnical Assistance
Support Services) contract.
Southwest
1971
SH&E (acquired by ICF in 2007),
begins assisting Southwest
Airlines—then an intrastate
start-up inTexas.
CWP
1988
ICF began the development
of the CorporateWork Plan, a
management information system
for the FAA.
1993ICF supports National Airspace System (NAS) Implementation Support
Contracts I, II, & III to provide field implementation support for the fielding of ATC
systems.
2011ICF supports the FAA’s Systems Engineering 2020 contract providing technical and
management support services to the FAA’s Next GenerationTransportation System.
ICF SH&E
2014
ICF international’s ICF SH&E
renamed.
Our first president was Clarence D. Lester, a former
Tuskegee Airman.“Lucky”piloted a P-51 with the
“RedTail Angels”—an earned nickname because of
the red paint applied to the aircraft’s tail section.
“Lucky”Lester
1975SH&E conducts research for the U.S. Department of
Transportation to help understand the possible outcomes of deregulation.
2003 ICF supports FAA’s Flight Service Station Competitive Sourcing and the
privatization of the flight service station function.
2010 ICF is tasked by the FAA to develop a high-level study that evaluated public-private
partnership alternatives to improve the business case for airlines’investment in NextGen avionics.
2011 ICF Hires Staff of AeroStrategy LLC, Expands Services into High-Growth Aerospace
Manufacturing and Aviation Supply Chain Management Sectors.
2012 ICF supports the FAA Enterprise Support Services (ECSS) contract,
providing a wide range of technology and management services.
2005 ICF works with the FAA CFO in the strategic sourcing of various
equipment and supplies under an innovative no cost share-in-savings contract.
1991ICF develops a training program for FAA Program Managers and
Business Managers to improve FAA management of air traffic control programs.
1992 ICF begins support to FAA long-range, terminal, weather and ground
radar programs through the SurveillanceTechnical Assistance Contract with
environmental, engineering and program management expertise.
2007 ICF acquires Simat, Helliesen & Eichner Inc. (SH&E).
2008 ICF begins training FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors including curriculum
development, classroom and in-flight flight training delivery for general aviation.
icfi.com/aviation
1969
ICF was founded as the Inner
City Fund, a venture capital firm
whose mission was to finance
inner-city businesses.
Inner City Fund